{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/taa/taa64.htm","path":"isl/taa/taa64.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/taa/taa64.htm","text":"The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq, by Ibn al-Arabi, tr. Reynold A. Nicholson, [1911]\n1. O b\u00e1n tree of the valley, on the bank of the river of Baghd\u00e1d!\n2. A mournful dove that cooed on a swaying bough filled me with grief for thee.\n3. His plaintive song reminds me of the plaintive song of the lady of the chamber.\n4. Whenever she tunes her triple chords, thou must forget the brother of al-H\u00e1d\u00ed.\n5. And if she lavishes her melody, who is Anjasha the camel-driver?\n6. I swear by Dhu \u2019l-Kha\u1e0dim\u00e1t and then by Sind\u00e1d\n7. That I am passionately in love with Salm\u00e1, who dwells at Ajy\u00e1d.\n8. No; I am mistaken: she dwells in the black clot of blood in the membrane of my liver.\n9. Beauty is confounded by her, and odours of musk and saffron are scattered abroad.\n1. 'O b\u00e1n tree,' etc., i.e. the tree of light in the station of the Qu\u1e6db.\n2. 'A mournful dove,' i.e. an exalted spirit.\n'On a swaying bough,' i.e. the human organism in the station of self-subsistence (###).\n3. 'The lady of the chamber,' i.e. every reality that exercises dominion in its own world.\n4. 'Her triple chords,' i.e. the body, with its three dimensions, viz. length, breadth, and depth. 'Triple chords' may also refer to the grades of the three Names, which are the abode of the two Im\u00e1ms and the Qu\u1e6db.\n'Al-H\u00e1d\u00ed,' the \u2018Abb\u00e1sid Caliph. His brother was a fine musician.\n5. 'Anjasha,' a camel-driver contemporary with the Prophet. He used to chant so sweetly that the camels died. (See Nawaw\u00ed, ed. by W\u00fcstenfeld, 164.)\n7. 'Salm\u00e1' (a woman's name), i.e. a Solomonic station.\n'Ajy\u00e1d' (plural of ###, neck), a place at Mecca. Here it refers to the throat through which the breath passes.","title":"The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq: Translation and Commentary: LXI","type":"page"}